Hey, Gang... Picked up a pistol the other day. Mine, a Glock, came with a lock from the manufacturer. While there, I overheard an exchange going on between the fellow in line next to me and the salesman.

The salesman asked him if he had a gun safe. Customer said yes. Salesman then whipped out a form that required the customer to answer a number of questions. All I got was... make, model, and number of guns. WTF! Don't the bastards keeping all this data on us have a database that tells them the number of guns each model holds??? Of course they do. What they seem to be trying to do, is to get people to reveal the number of guns they actually keep in the safe on site! Not registration, per se, but I guess when the confiscations begin, they'll know where to dispatch the jack-booted thugs to get the most bang for their buck. So to speak.

This has got to be a new law. I purchased a revolver earlier this year, that did not come with its own lock and there was no grilling about gun safes. They just required me to buy a cheap lock for it (which has been a requirement in California for many years now).

I wonder if they have something new in the wings, some kind of “safety of storage” sort of law. They compare the # of guns and the size of model of the safe you specified, then slam you for improper storage according to THEIR criteria.

To sell him a safe? Maybe. But he produced what looked like an official Dept. of Justice form for the guy to complete. I completely trust these guys at this particular gun store. They’re honest and prices are fair. They’re conservative and ticked off at the ‘rats.

Here you go- your gun safe must be sized to properly hold the number of guns you own, so naturally there is a form where you state what model of safe you have and what's in it, so they can be sure you comply with everything.

Regulatory Gun Safe Standards

DOJ regulatory standards require a gun safe to meet either:

All of the following requirements:

Shall be able to fully contain firearms and provide for their secure storage;

Shall have a locking system consisting of at minimum a mechanical or electronic combination lock. The mechanical or electronic combination lock utilized by the safe shall have at least 10,000 possible combinations consisting of a minimum three numbers, letters, or symbols. The lock shall be protected by a case-hardened (Rc 60+) drill-resistant steel plate, or drill-resistant material of equivalent strength;

Boltwork shall consist of a minimum of three steel locking bolts of at least ½ inch thickness that intrude from the door of the safe into the body of the safe or from the body of the safe into the door of the safe, which are operated by a separate handle and secured by the lock;

Shall be capable of repeated use. The exterior walls shall be constructed of a minimum 12-gauge thick steel for a single-walled safe, or the sum of the steel walls shall add up to at least .100 inches for safes with two walls. Doors shall be constructed of a minimum of two layers of 12-gauge steel, or one layer of 7-gauge steel compound construction;

Door hinges shall be protected to prevent the removal of the door. Protective features include, but are not limited to: hinges not exposed to the outside, interlocking door designs, dead bars, jewelers lugs and active or inactive locking bolts.

Every time I get a new handgun, the gun lock gets thrown into the abyss of my garage, then the gun is immediately taken to the range for shooting-in. The gun leaves the range loaded and is returned to my home loaded. Finally, it is placed somewhere handy in my home loaded.

The last place a handgun will end up in my home is in a safe where it is not readily available for use.

And for the, "it's for the children" crowd, my teenage daughters fully practice "gun control" and go to "group therapy" sessions at the range on a regular basis.

This is the best gun store in the Central Valley. They seem to have everything in stock. The prices are fair (considering the environment at the moment). And they’re PO’d conservatives. I think it’s a new law. FineSwine must’ve pushed it through.

They just required me to buy a cheap lock for it (which has been a requirement in California for many years now).

I carry a state-approved handgun lock and a state-approved long-gun lock in my car. Any time I choose to buy a firearm, I can trot those into the store and demonstrate that I don't have to pay the extra $15-$20.

Wow, thx. Can't keep up with the blizzard of unconstitutional laws flying out of Feinswine's a**. I thought the law only required you to keep your guns in a safe OR locked with a trigger or bolt lock, and that could be a cheapie,, as all of mine are.

You know what they told me when I asked them if I couldn’t just bring my locks in to prove I didn’t need to buy one? A big fat “NO!” The only way that gang of traitors in Sacramento felt they could be assured the gun lock met current legal standards would be for gun buyers to buy a new lock at the time of purchase. I want out of this state SO bad!

I think that’s a federal law that’s been in effect for about 25 years. You buy a new gun and it comes with a new gun lock, right in the box. I bought a new mini-14 about four years ago, and it came with a long, thick, sturdy lock. I liked that lock so much that I used it on my bicycle. And wouldn’t you know it? Somebody sawed off that lock and stole my bicycle. Talk about a false sense of security!

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posted on 03/28/2013 4:47:47 PM PDT
by jespasinthru
(Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.)

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